Improved grain-drill



w. H. TRIMMER.

Grain Drill.

No. 95,619. Patented Oct. 5,1869.

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VlflLLIAMH. TRIMMER, or ROUND HILL, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 95,619,dated 0mm- 5, 1869.

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To to whom it 'i nay concern:

' Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. TRIMMER, of Round Hill, in the county of Adams, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Seeding-Machines; and I do hereby B is'the axle-tree, on the upper surface of which are placed the seed-boxes d d and the dn'vers seat 0.-

F designates a platform, resting on frame A, directly in front of axle-treeB.

0n said plat-form the two seed-boxes g g are placed. 0 0 represent slides, operating through slots in the bottom of seed-boxes d d and g g.

\ D The said slideswill have as many perforations through them as the operator may deem necessary.

ff represent two iron rods, the inner end of each of said rods being hooked to its corresponding slide 0. The outer end of rods ff will embrace the wrist of crank h.

The cranks h, it'will be seen, form one end of the axles, on which driving-wheels k k revolve, the said wheels being hung in pendants at the rear end of frame A. k

L L designate the two front wheels, which are of smaller size, and are constructed and hung like casters, so as to turn on a pivot in any direction.

m m represent tubes for conveying seed to the furrow. p

Two of said tubes receive the seed from seed-boxes d d, and two from boxes 9 g.

n represents the shovel that opens the furr'ow, and is placed in front of the tubes m.

10 represents a bifurcated hoe, secured to frame A, v behind the tubes m,.and intended to throw the earth from each side to the centre of the fdrrow, in -order to effectually cover the seed.

The rear portion of frame marked A being hinged to axle-tree B, can be made to play vertically, by removing or withdrawing pins 1: from their sockets on the sides of frame A.

My seeder, it will be remarked, is designed either for corn or for pumpkin-seed, and this twofold purpose will be effected by placing seed-boxes g 9 further from boxes (I d, and adapting the perforations in slides O O to the increased distance of seed-boxes. Having thus described my. invention,

What Iclaim, and'desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is--- 1. The hinged frame A, provided with pins 1: 0, wheels k k, and coverers 'u; w, in combination with the main-frame A, all arranged to operate substantially as described. V

2. A seeder and cultivator, constructed with seedboxes d d, g g, slides GO, adjustable frameA', wheels 7:, casters L L, shovels 'n, forked hoes w, the whole combined andbperated substantially as'set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, j

I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

- WM; H. TRIMMER.

Witnesses: i

W. W. STEWART,

J-. A? R. MoBnmn. 

